OPEN HOUSE AND MIMOSAS

This Saturday & Sunday, the 25th and 26th, from 11am-3pm. Two blocks away from the Charleston Homes and Design Show.

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Ghostly Night in the Holy City

The tri-fold brochures and oh-so-dreaded fanny packs were no where to be found. If tourists want a tour of the city--history, culinary, or ghost related--they start at Market Street. For the first time in eight years, I went on such a tour yesterday evening, and it was free! Yes, one night a year, Bulldog Tours dedicates an evening to locals.

 

Our tour guide was Lisa, a Charleston native and excellent story-teller. Or were they just stories? Among visiting the graveyards at St. Philip, St. Michael, and the Circular Congregational churches, and restaurants that are now Poogan's Porch and South End Brewery, we were told stories of ghosts who protect the living, ghosts who appear in broad daylight, and ghosts who still hold grudges against patrons in hotel rooms.

 

 

 

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Oysters and Beer for a Lighthouse, Oh My!

It was the most beautiful view I'd witnessed since peering out onto the Grand Canyon or the Montana Rockies. It all began in 2010 with a simple college assignment for a class taught by Craig Bennett called Preservation Engineering. And it lead me to the top of the Morris Island Lighthouse. Unlike other lighthouses, this one was not so easy to climb since it sat (and still does) in the middle of the salt water of the Atlantic Ocean. A morning alarm, two John boats, a swinging ladder, and hundreds of steps later, I was standing at the top, viewing the panorama of the South Carolina waters. It was one of the most magnificent views I'd ever seen. I stood on a lone mountaintop along a flat coastline, and only the wind rushing past my ears.

The Hitchcocks, myself, and two cadets from the Citadel ate lunch together on the sandbar afterwards, eventually pushed to the beaches by the incoming tide. I didn't want to leave. But every now and then when I'm on James Island, I'll drive out to the lighthouse just to see it in person again, sit for a moment by myself on the beach, breathe in the salt air, and imagine a bridge that could take me there. 

To learn more about how the lighthouse found itself in the middle of the ocean, visit www.savethelight.org.

The annual Save the Light Oyster Roast is this Sunday, January 12, 2014 from 2pm-5pm at Bowen's Island off of Folly Road on James Island, South Carolina. All you can eat oysters, all you can drink beer&wine (21+). $25/person. (843)633-0099.

My follow-up photo:



Boat brought the oysters right to shore! 1/21/14



 

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